{"id":"OESA-2022-1572","summary":"polkit security update","details":"polkit is a toolkit for defining and handling authorizations. It is used for allowing unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes.\r\n\r\nSecurity Fix(es):\r\n\r\nThere is a flaw in polkit which can allow an unprivileged user to cause polkit to crash, due to process file descriptor exhaustion. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to availability. NOTE: Polkit process outage duration is tied to the failing process being reaped and a new one being spawned(CVE-2021-4115)","modified":"2026-03-11T06:04:23.821308Z","published":"2022-03-12T11:03:37Z","upstream":["CVE-2021-4115"],"database_specific":{"severity":"Medium"},"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://www.openeuler.org/en/security/safety-bulletin/detail.html?id=openEuler-SA-2022-1572"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-4115"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"polkit","ecosystem":"openEuler:20.03-LTS-SP1","purl":"pkg:rpm/openEuler/polkit&distro=openEuler-20.03-LTS-SP1"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.116-9.oe1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"aarch64":["polkit-debuginfo-0.116-9.oe1.aarch64.rpm","polkit-libs-0.116-9.oe1.aarch64.rpm","polkit-devel-0.116-9.oe1.aarch64.rpm","polkit-0.116-9.oe1.aarch64.rpm","polkit-debugsource-0.116-9.oe1.aarch64.rpm"],"noarch":["polkit-help-0.116-9.oe1.noarch.rpm"],"src":["polkit-0.116-9.oe1.src.rpm"],"x86_64":["polkit-debugsource-0.116-9.oe1.x86_64.rpm","polkit-libs-0.116-9.oe1.x86_64.rpm","polkit-debuginfo-0.116-9.oe1.x86_64.rpm","polkit-devel-0.116-9.oe1.x86_64.rpm","polkit-0.116-9.oe1.x86_64.rpm"]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://repo.openeuler.org/security/data/osv/OESA-2022-1572.json"}},{"package":{"name":"polkit","ecosystem":"openEuler:20.03-LTS-SP2","purl":"pkg:rpm/openEuler/polkit&distro=openEuler-20.03-LTS-SP2"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.116-10.oe1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"aarch64":["polkit-libs-0.116-10.oe1.aarch64.rpm","polkit-debugsource-0.116-10.oe1.aarch64.rpm","polkit-debuginfo-0.116-10.oe1.aarch64.rpm","polkit-devel-0.116-10.oe1.aarch64.rpm","polkit-0.116-10.oe1.aarch64.rpm"],"noarch":["polkit-help-0.116-10.oe1.noarch.rpm"],"src":["polkit-0.116-10.oe1.src.rpm"],"x86_64":["polkit-debugsource-0.116-10.oe1.x86_64.rpm","polkit-0.116-10.oe1.x86_64.rpm","polkit-devel-0.116-10.oe1.x86_64.rpm","polkit-libs-0.116-10.oe1.x86_64.rpm","polkit-debuginfo-0.116-10.oe1.x86_64.rpm"]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://repo.openeuler.org/security/data/osv/OESA-2022-1572.json"}},{"package":{"name":"polkit","ecosystem":"openEuler:20.03-LTS-SP3","purl":"pkg:rpm/openEuler/polkit&distro=openEuler-20.03-LTS-SP3"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.116-10.oe1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"aarch64":["polkit-debuginfo-0.116-10.oe1.aarch64.rpm","polkit-devel-0.116-10.oe1.aarch64.rpm","polkit-libs-0.116-10.oe1.aarch64.rpm","polkit-0.116-10.oe1.aarch64.rpm","polkit-debugsource-0.116-10.oe1.aarch64.rpm"],"noarch":["polkit-help-0.116-10.oe1.noarch.rpm"],"src":["polkit-0.116-10.oe1.src.rpm"],"x86_64":["polkit-libs-0.116-10.oe1.x86_64.rpm","polkit-debuginfo-0.116-10.oe1.x86_64.rpm","polkit-debugsource-0.116-10.oe1.x86_64.rpm","polkit-0.116-10.oe1.x86_64.rpm","polkit-devel-0.116-10.oe1.x86_64.rpm"]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://repo.openeuler.org/security/data/osv/OESA-2022-1572.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5"}